Re: [PATCH v3] clocksource: acpi_pm: fix return value of __setup handler

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On 3/17/22 06:25, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 3:41 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> __setup() handlers should return 1 to obsolete_checksetup() in
>> init/main.c to indicate that the boot option has been handled.
>> A return of 0 causes the boot option/value to be listed as an Unknown
>> kernel parameter and added to init's (limited) environment strings.
>>
>> The __setup() handler interface isn't meant to handle negative return
>> values -- they are non-zero, so they mean "handled" (like a return
>> value of 1 does), but that's just a quirk. So return 1 from
>> parse_pmtmr(). Also print a warning message if kstrtouint() returns
>> an error.
>>
>> Fixes: 6b148507d3d0 ("pmtmr: allow command line override of ioport")
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> From: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> What does this From tag mean?

Well shucks. That should be "Reported-by: Igor", like it is in all of the
other __setup handler fixing patches.
I don't know how that happened.
I'll send a v4....

thanks.

> 
>> Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>> v3: also cc: linux-acpi (Rafael)
>> v2: correct the Fixes: tag (Dan Carpenter)
>>
>>  drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c |    6 ++++--
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- linux-next-20220315.orig/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
>> +++ linux-next-20220315/drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.c
>> @@ -229,8 +229,10 @@ static int __init parse_pmtmr(char *arg)
>>         int ret;
>>
>>         ret = kstrtouint(arg, 16, &base);
>> -       if (ret)
>> -               return ret;
>> +       if (ret) {
>> +               pr_warn("PMTMR: invalid 'pmtmr=' value: '%s'\n", arg);
>> +               return 1;
>> +       }
>>
>>         pr_info("PMTMR IOPort override: 0x%04x -> 0x%04x\n", pmtmr_ioport,
>>                 base);

-- 
~Randy



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